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Scaremongering you say?
11-year-old boy driving stolen car hits woman in Rochester
Teen accused of shooting and killing another teen during robbery on Flint Street
Four juveniles charged in Greece stolen vehicle crash
Teenager arrested for carjacking involving loaded ‘ghost gun’
And while not strictly teenager related, I get to hear these idiots ride in a pack and go up and down the city streets during the summer.
I’m not saying all teenagers are bad but when schools are the worse in the country, there’s not really any other options for kids.
I will admit I should have put these links in my origami comment, but I assumed this was an issue in many urban areas. 🤷🏻♂️
News articles are for fear mongering. They report on salacious cases. You can’t use them to make generalizations or arguments about crime as a whole, unless you’re doing some thick description full on qualitative research and analysis. (Even that can be doubtful. Gang Leader for a Day is a famous piece of bullshit - also probably the inspiration for that Xavier : Renegade Angel episode).
The data says there was a bump up during COVID, which is explained by COVID (schools closing is an obvious factor). But as far as larger trends.
Literally all of these are anecdotal evidence. Youth crime is down massively since the 90's, and beyond the very real gun violence (for which y'all have tried nothing and are all out of ideas) none of the stories you linked demonstrate or try to demonstrate a systemic problem except the systemic problem of news organisations optimizing for clicks rather than information.
Lmao